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By J. B. Williams March 25, 2008 Page 2 of 3 Minus her loans to the campaign, Clinton has actually raised $158.8 million, trailing well behind Obama's $192.7 million. She is also losing both the popular vote and the delegate count in the race for the DNC nomination. Will she be president? He with Little Gold or Anything Else Trailing far behind on all fronts is career Republican Senator John McCain who has thus far raised only $60.2 million compared to Obama's $192.7 million and Hillary's $173.8 million. McCain also has less than half the popular primary votes of either Obama or Clinton, but he has wrangled the RNC nomination away from all of his opponents, including the almost 70% of Republicans who voted against him in the primaries. McCain had his best fund-raising month in February when he raised $11 million as the RNC nominee. But Obama raised $42.7 million and Clinton raised $34.6 million in February. Clearly, if it is the gold that will determine the outcome of this election, McCain is not even in the game. With fewer voters and far less money, how can he become president? Gold Already Spent Obama indeed leads the race for the White House by any measuring stick you care to use. He is at present the front-runner for the 2008 presidential race and he has spent a reported $154.7 million to become that front-runner. Like it or not, Hillary Clinton is currently running second in the race for the White House and she has spent more than the $158.8 million she raised doing so, personally loaning her campaign another $15 million just to remain in the race. And last we have John McCain, who has already spent $49 million of his $60.2 million raised and was out-raised again in February, 4 to 1 by Obama and 3 to 1 by Clinton, even after McCain secured the RNC nomination. The Democrat race for the nomination is likely to run all the way to the DNC convention, where it may in the end be decided by "super-delegates" instead of democrat voters or their money. But John McCain is definitely the RNC nominee and statistically speaking, he is in no position to complete with either Obama or Clinton. Breaking the Golden Rule Poor Democrats continue to out-raise those rich Republicans with a grand party total of $461 million to $329 million, a $132 million financial advantage for Democrats. Obama is the man with the most gold, but will he rule? Will his empty résumé eventually mean more than his charismatic ability to raise money? Will his twenty year membership in a hate-filled anti-American church, his Muslim heritage and his obvious ignorance in foreign affairs or his campaign double-talk, outweigh his charm and his gold? The Clinton name has been a juggernaut in DNC politics for years now and money has never been an object for the First Family of Political Corruption and Crime. But no name in America has ever inspired as much disdain and contempt as the name Hillary Clinton. Can the most despised political sacred cow in America today become Queen? |
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